(n.) Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Opprobrium didn’t pour down on McIntyre out of respect for historical veracity.
(2) She has risked opprobrium in Ireland for speaking out about having a termination in England because her baby would have been born dead.
(3) We need to rediscover what it is to be a human, and that every human being matters.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Police use tear gas on migrants who attempt to breach an inner fence of the Eurotunnel in Coquelles on Saturday night On Thursday the prime minister drew international opprobrium when he described migrants trying to reach Britain as a “ swarm ” and promised to introduce strong-arm tactics, including extra sniffer dogs and fencing, at Calais.
(4) "Being a branded company clearly brings opprobrium," he said.
(5) Though her report focused on failures in RMBC, Casey reserves some opprobrium for South Yorkshire police.
(6) But Mr Rowland was also a tax exile for decades, before returning last year and donating millions to the Tory party; and it would be fair to assume that Mr Cameron could have expected some opprobrium (not least from his own MPs) for appointing such a recent returnee from the tax haven of Guernsey to a prominent position within his party.
(7) Earlier in the summer, the Jimmy Reid Foundation asked Glasgow's council to erect a plaque that would "write back into history" the city's revolutionary socialists and pacifists whose opposition to what they saw as a capitalist and imperialist conflict earned them jail sentences, ill-health and opprobrium.
(8) Like holding their nose and jumping into a cold pool, Tesco bosses decided that the transparency was worth the opprobrium, which I think will turn out to be true.
(9) Gender hierarchy and separate socialization precluded a heterosexual construction of any such equality in the Renaissance, and the greater opprobrium cast on male homosexuality in this era must have influenced Donne's decision to figure his equal lovers and friends as a lesbian couple.
(10) While those in the west argue for fundamental reform and a president who can restore global trust, it must be remembered that two-thirds of Fifa’s 209 members (who each hold equal voting rights, from the Cayman Islands to China) voted for Blatter’s re-election despite the scale of international opprobrium.
(11) If an agreement could be reached before he dies, it might avoid a repetition of the confusion and international opprobrium that has surrounded the botched handling of the Panchen Lama succession.
(12) Many others are tolerant of the migrants, who inspire as much pity as opprobrium.
(13) He is the hands-on chief executive to Cameron’s aloof chairman of the board and is therefore the natural focus of Labour’s opprobrium.
(14) Cruz is used to mainstream Republican opprobrium – John McCain famously described him and fellow conservative Rand Paul as "wacko birds" – but he briefly became the most hated figure in Congress when he then failed to follow through on his strategy by winning enough support in the Senate, leaving Boehner blamed for shutting down the government.
(15) His young starting strike force of Ji Dong-won and Connor Wickham were subjected to the lion's share of the opprobrium in the wake of their side's reverse and will have been dismayed by the manner in which their work rate, character and intelligence were traduced.
(16) was apparently struggling with this part.” Reddit users rebel over banning of fat-shaming subforums Read more Much of the opprobrium from Reddit users has been focused on the site’s chief executive, Ellen Pao, who took over the top job in November 2014.
(17) Similarities between the two groups appeared due to (1) pharmacologic effects of narcotic addiction and (2) low social opprobrium toward addiction in both cultures.
(18) But having revived his career at the BBC not even Cresswell could stem the opprobrium heaped on his client in the wake of "Sachsgate" and Ross's 13-year run at the BBC came to an end.
(19) "Exploiting western opprobrium of the behaviour of the current government of Iran, the (MEK) posit themselves as the alternative.
(20) Barack Obama on Sunday led politicians, sports stars and other public figures in condemning racist comments attributed to the Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, a barrage of opprobrium likely to swell with the leaking of apparently additional remarks.
Vilification
Definition:
(n.) The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its campaign of vilification and deliberate misrepresentation of benefit spending has been effective, blaming the poor, not pay structures.
(2) Casillas had been the victim of an orchestrated campaign of “vilification” in recent years which eventually prompted his decision to quit, they added.
(3) The UK has followed US trends over cannabis, heroin and psychedelics, and led the world in the vilification of MDMA (ecstasy).
(4) Both sections were introduced in response to three major independent inquiries, including the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, which found that racial hatred and vilification causes psychological harm to its targets, and reinforces and normalises more severe acts of discrimination, harassment, intimidation and violence.
(5) Jakarta's violent identity crisis: behind the vilification of Chinese-Indonesians Read more An edited version of that speech was later posted online with several words omitted, making it seem as though Ahok was suggesting the Qur’anic verse itself was misleading, not the Islamic leaders citing it.
(6) Jakarta's violent identity crisis: behind the vilification of Chinese-Indonesians Read more How did that start?
(7) Protection against racial vilification which upholds freedom of speech as well as freedom from racial vilification (much like the protection we already have, at time of print at least) is probably a good idea too.
(8) This review addresses the issues of dependence on an withdrawal from benzodiazepines and weighs up the evidence for their present vilification.
(9) Brandis said the overall changes would strengthen the act by including vilification as an offence.
(10) Representatives of Muslim and Arab organisations also reported that members of their communities experienced racial and religious vilification with regular frequency, not only in verbal form, but also through offensive letters and pamphlets,” the report said.
(11) In the days that followed, the pro-army media broadcast endless hours of patriotic messages and vilification of Morsi and the Brotherhood.
(12) Bahá'ís are denied jobs in the public sector; their businesses are closed and property appropriated; and the entire community is subjected to waves of defamation and vilification in the state media.
(13) As awareness increases it exposes some negative views, and there’s often a lashing out by some members of the community at trans people.” We were also seen as dangerous by our fellow gay people Mark Gillespie She cites vilification of the writer and soldier Cate McGregor by some commentators and bloggers.
(14) Ironically, in writing her book, Chua has done the most western thing imaginable: she has exposed herself, warts and all, at risk of misunderstanding and vilification.
(15) So why did Sir Andrew break away from this comfort zone and help found an organisation that was inevitably going to bring him publicity and vilification?
(16) This is in contrast to vilification and alienation which research suggests can catalyse re-offending.
(17) In the statement, he said: "The soil we till is highly controversial, and anyone who puts their head above the parapet has to be prepared to endure a degree of public vilification.
(18) But with an estimated one million US citizens living in Mexico – a large portion of whom are retirees – it is perhaps inevitable that some should support a candidate whose campaign has been built on the vilification of the country.
(19) Zimmerman argued while there should be laws to prevent racial vilification, people’s religious beliefs should be allowed to be criticised.
(20) MacFarlane, 39, did not comment on his vilification in the media for perceived sexism – not least on account of his opening number We Saw Your Boobs – other than to post a link to a Huffington Post blog on the proliferation of the "celebrity sideboob" in 2012.